(CNN) -- "J. Edgar" is the latest in what seems to be a never-ending trend of treating a biopic as being compelling and interesting simply because the subject may be. The thing is, films don't work that way and while J. Edgar Hoover was indeed a fascinating man and important in our country's history, Clint Eastwood's film from a script by Dustin Lance Black ("Milk") is dull from start to finish and often bears little resemblance to the truth. Let's be clear about one thing up front: J. Edgar Hoover was a bad guy. He was a power-obsessed, racist paranoid with little concern for the working people, immigrants or ethnic minorities that helped build this country. He was the perfect example of someone who believed that in order to protect the United States, he was entitled to shred the document on which the country was founded, the U.S. Constitution. How or more importantly, why, those virtually undisputed facts were twisted into the mockery of history that is Eastwood's "J. Edgar" is anyone's guess.

Here it's an endless stream of flash-forwards and flashbacks of young Hoover, old Hoover, young Hoover again, not-so-young-as-young Hoover, middle-aged Hoover, gay
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Hoover, momma's boy Hoover, dictating Hoover.


(CNN) -- Colombia laid out its case against Venezuela Thursday in front of the Organization of American States. In a lengthy speech before an emergency meeting of the hemispheric body, Colombian Ambassador Luis Alfonso Hoyos provided photos he said were evidence of rebel camps in Venezuela belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, and the National Liberation Army, or ELN. At the end of Thursday's meetings, the member countries reached an agreement to cooperate on a unified front against drug trafficking and terrorism. However, the body did not come down in favor of one side or another in the latest spat between Colombia and Venezuela.

"The FARC, the ELN, and the paramilitaries are a
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Colombia phenomena and remain in Colombia because the president who most bragged about getting rid of them couldn't complete his promises," Chaderton said.


Add former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney to the chorus of Republicans who seem insistent on making the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya a black mark against Hillary Rodham Clinton if she decides to run for president. In an interview taped for Fox News Sunday, Cheney told host Chris Wallace that the former Secretary of State will have some explaining to do. 'She was Secretary of State at the time that it happened,' Cheney said in an excerpt broadcast Friday afternoon on Fox. 'She was one of the first in Washington to know about it.' 'I think she clearly bears responsibility for whatever the State Department did or didn't do with respect to that – uh, that crisis.'

Clinton, who has insisted for more than a year that she's on the fence about a
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White House run in 2016, has sounded more and more like a candidate in recent weeks.